The Witness reports that several Msunduzi TVET students allegedly sustained rubber bullet injuries when the police fired at them while they picketed outside the college’s central offices on Wednesday.  

The students embarked on a go-slow and marched to the office to hand over a memorandum of grievances over unpaid allowances owed to them since last year.  Outraged students said other Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) students under Umgungundlovu have received the outstanding balance of the money owed to them, but they have been left out.  They alleged that the management has deliberately withheld the payout.  According to the newly elected SRC president, Ningi Luthuli, as a result of Wednesday’s events the college has been shut down until further notice.  Earlier this year, the SA Further Education and Training Student Association declared a nationwide shutdown of TVET colleges over unresolved issues faced by students, included among which was allowances owed from last year.  

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